Full Description
Thinking about teaching in educational terms has become increasingly difficult because of the conceptions of higher education that predominate in both policy and public debate. Framing the benefits of higher education simply as an economic good poses particular difficulties for making educational sense of teaching. Moreover, the assumptions about social mobility, usefulness, and the economic advantages of higher education, upon which these conceptions are based, can no longer be taken for granted.
The chapters in this book all wrestle with understandings of education and teaching experiences in changing global, national, and institutional contexts. They explore questions of difference and privilege, the social transformation of teaching through transforming teachers, contestations of global citizenship and interculturality, learning and sensibilities of self-in-the-world, the relationship between programme content and student decision-making, divergent conceptions of learning in international education, and subject-centred approaches to embodied teaching. The book considers the value of disciplinary tools of analysis in addressing contextual challenges in developing societies, connections between pedagogies, autonomy and intercultural classrooms, and ways of countering the marketization of higher education through online teaching communities. This book was originally published as a special issue of Teaching in Higher Education.
Contents
1. Difficult times for college students of color: teaching white students about White Privilege provides hope for change 2. Teacher as learner: a personal reflection on a short course for South African university educators 3. Global citizenship, sojourning students and campus communities 4. Strategies for critiquing global citizenry: undergraduate research as a possible vehicle 5. Interdisciplinary content, contestations of knowledge and informational transparency in engineering curriculum 6. Chinese students making sense of problem-based learning and Western teaching - pitfalls and coping strategies 7. Reframing teaching relationships: from student-centred to subject-centred learning 8. A heuristic for analysing and teaching literature dealing with the challenges of social justice 9. The influence of internationalisation and national identity on teaching and assessments in higher education 10. Online teaching communities within sociology: a counter trend to the marketization of higher education
